Angus,
Couple things
First your patches are directory diffs, which is ok, but IMO it makes more sense to do the following:
clone a copy of the ironicclient.
Apply the 0001 patch
git commit -a
(Write a nice changelog)
Apply the 0002 patch
git commit -a
write a nice changelog
git format-patch -2
This will give you a tidy changelog in the patches and allow people to use git am to apply the patches.
The first patch will look at the variable:
REDHATIRONICCLIENTVERSION
I believe this needs to be sed-ed into the file as is done in the nova client spec file. I recently did this for one of the os-*-* tools and it was necessary to do the sed, or the installed package doesn't work.
The requirements for removing the pbr runtime requirement come from the openstack fedora developers - this is not something a typical python packager would do, so keep that in mind during further reviews of other people's packages.
Just one minor nitpick as well, typically %doc goes at the top of the files section. Although this is not mandatory or documented, it is a typical common convention and since you need to remake packages, it might not hurt to fix that up.
Regards
-steve

Package Review
==============
Legend:
[x] = Pass, [!] = Fail, [-] = Not applicable, [?] = Not evaluated
[ ] = Manual review needed
===== MUST items =====
Generic:
[x]: Package is licensed with an open-source compatible license and meets
other legal requirements as defined in the legal section of Packaging
Guidelines.
[x]: License field in the package spec file matches the actual license.
Note: Checking patched sources after %prep for licenses. Licenses found:
"Apache (v2.0)", "Unknown or generated", "*No copyright* Apache (v2.0)".
3 files have unknown license. Detailed output of licensecheck in
/home/sdake/fedora-review/1069882-python-ironicclient/licensecheck.txt
The following files have no copyright header. Since the package license is clear, these aren't clear problems, but it would make sense to file an upstream bug to add a license header on these files:
python-ironicclient-0.1.2/ironicclient/client.py
python-ironicclient-0.1.2/ironicclient/exc.py
python-ironicclient-0.1.2/ironicclient/shell.py
python-ironicclient-0.1.2/ironicclient/tests/test_client.py
python-ironicclient-0.1.2/ironicclient/tests/test_shell.py
python-ironicclient-0.1.2/ironicclient/v1/shell.py
The following are generated by the build and no license changes are necessary
python-ironicclient-0.1.2/doc/source/conf.py
python-ironicclient-0.1.2/setup.py
python-ironicclient-0.1.2/tools/with_venv.sh
[x]: Package contains no bundled libraries without FPC exception.
[x]: Changelog in prescribed format.
[x]: Sources contain only permissible code or content.
[-]: Package contains desktop file if it is a GUI application.
[-]: Development files must be in a -devel package
[x]: Package uses nothing in %doc for runtime.
[x]: Package consistently uses macros (instead of hard-coded directory names).
[x]: Package is named according to the Package Naming Guidelines.
[x]: Package does not generate any conflict.
[x]: Package obeys FHS, except libexecdir and /usr/target.
[-]: If the package is a rename of another package, proper Obsoletes and
Provides are present.
[x]: Requires correct, justified where necessary.
[x]: Spec file is legible and written in American English.
[-]: Package contains systemd file(s) if in need.
[x]: Package is not known to require an ExcludeArch tag.
[-]: Large documentation must go in a -doc subpackage. Large could be size
(~1MB) or number of files.
Note: Documentation size is 20480 bytes in 2 files.
[x]: Package complies to the Packaging Guidelines
[x]: Package successfully compiles and builds into binary rpms on at least one
supported primary architecture.
[x]: Package installs properly.
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all rpms the build produces.
Note: There are rpmlint messages (see attachment).
[x]: If (and only if) the source package includes the text of the license(s)
in its own file, then that file, containing the text of the license(s)
for the package is included in %doc.
[x]: Package requires other packages for directories it uses.
[x]: Package must own all directories that it creates.
[x]: Package does not own files or directories owned by other packages.
[x]: All build dependencies are listed in BuildRequires, except for any that
are listed in the exceptions section of Packaging Guidelines.
[x]: Package uses either %{buildroot} or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
[x]: Package does not run rm -rf %{buildroot} (or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT) at the
beginning of %install.
[x]: Macros in Summary, %description expandable at SRPM build time.
[x]: Package does not contain duplicates in %files.
[x]: Permissions on files are set properly.
[x]: Package use %makeinstall only when make install' ' DESTDIR=... doesn't
work.
[x]: Package is named using only allowed ASCII characters.
[x]: Package do not use a name that already exist
[x]: Package is not relocatable.
[x]: Sources used to build the package match the upstream source, as provided
in the spec URL.
[x]: Spec file name must match the spec package %{name}, in the format
%{name}.spec.
[x]: File names are valid UTF-8.
[x]: Packages must not store files under /srv, /opt or /usr/local
Python:
[x]: Python eggs must not download any dependencies during the build process.
[x]: A package which is used by another package via an egg interface should
provide egg info.
[x]: Package meets the Packaging Guidelines::Python
[x]: Package contains BR: python2-devel or python3-devel
[x]: Binary eggs must be removed in %prep
===== SHOULD items =====
Generic:
[-]: If the source package does not include license text(s) as a separate file
from upstream, the packager SHOULD query upstream to include it.
[x]: Final provides and requires are sane (see attachments).
[-]: Package functions as described.
[x]: Latest version is packaged.
[x]: Package does not include license text files separate from upstream.
[-]: Patches link to upstream bugs/comments/lists or are otherwise justified.
[-]: Description and summary sections in the package spec file contains
translations for supported Non-English languages, if available.
[x]: Package should compile and build into binary rpms on all supported
architectures.
[-]: %check is present and all tests pass.
[x]: Packages should try to preserve timestamps of original installed files.
[x]: Packager, Vendor, PreReq, Copyright tags should not be in spec file
[x]: Sources can be downloaded from URI in Source: tag
[x]: Reviewer should test that the package builds in mock.
[x]: Buildroot is not present
[x]: Package has no %clean section with rm -rf %{buildroot} (or
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT)
[x]: Dist tag is present (not strictly required in GL).
[x]: No file requires outside of /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin.
[x]: SourceX is a working URL.
[x]: Spec use %global instead of %define unless justified.
===== EXTRA items =====
Generic:
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all installed packages.
Note: There are rpmlint messages (see attachment).
[x]: Spec file according to URL is the same as in SRPM.
Rpmlint
-------
Checking: python-ironicclient-0.1.2-4.fc20.noarch.rpm
python-ironicclient-0.1.2-4.fc20.src.rpm
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: explicit-lib-dependency python-httplib2
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironicclient/v1/node_shell.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironicclient/v1/port_shell.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironicclient/v1/chassis_shell.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironicclient/v1/__init__.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
python-ironicclient.noarch: W: no-manual-page-for-binary ironic
python-ironicclient.src:64: W: macro-in-%changelog %files
Don't use macros in changelogs. just change %files to files.
python-ironicclient.src:16: W: mixed-use-of-spaces-and-tabs (spaces: line 7, tab: line 16)
please correct to use either tabs or spaces entirely. I'd recommend tabs.
2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 5 errors, 3 warnings.
Rpmlint (installed packages)
----------------------------
# rpmlint python-ironicclient
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: explicit-lib-dependency python-httplib2
this is a false negative error. rpm doesn't handle explicit lib dependencies for python packages.
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironicclient/v1/node_shell.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
recommend filing a bug with upstream to remove /usr/bin/env. Since this is a library, I am pretty sure the need to specify the environment is not necessaary.
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironicclient/v1/port_shell.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
recommend filing a bug with upstream to remove /usr/bin/env. Since this is a library, I am pretty sure the need to specify the environment is not necessaary.
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironicclient/v1/chassis_shell.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
recommend filing a bug with upstream to remove /usr/bin/env. Since this is a library, I am pretty sure the need to specify the environment is not necessaary.
python-ironicclient.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironicclient/v1/__init__.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
recommend filing a bug with upstream to remove /usr/bin/env. Since this is a library, I am pretty sure the need to specify the environment is not necessaary.
python-ironicclient.noarch: W: no-manual-page-for-binary ironic
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 5 errors, 1 warnings.
# echo 'rpmlint-done:'
Requires
--------
python-ironicclient (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
/usr/bin/python2
python(abi)
python-anyjson
python-httplib2
python-keystoneclient
python-lxml
python-prettytable
python-six
python-stevedore
Provides
--------
python-ironicclient:
python-ironicclient
Source checksums
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